I took a quick look at the Cygwin support page (<http://bioinformatics.org/ghemical/cygwin.html>) on the Web site you mentioned (I trust you did the same, right?).
Ghemical is a X-based application, which means that before you'll be able to either compiler or run this software you'll need to install the XFree86/Cygwin packages (available via the same installer you presumably used to get your existing Cygw.
Furthermore, according the aforementioned Cygwin support page for Ghemical:
"At the moment (in March 2002) there are no ready GNOME binary packages for Cygwin, so in addition to Ghemical, you also have to compile a (minimal) GNOME environment. ..."
To be honest, I don't know what is the status of Gnome for XFree86/Cygwin, or whether that statement is still valid, but I suspect that it and the instructions also included on that page are probably close to the correct.
Assuming you just perform an ordinary install of all of Cygwin, including XFree86/Cygwin, using the Cygwin Setup.exe installer, you'll probably have a correct Cygwin installation, as far as it goes. That won't get you Gnome, so for that part you'll have to follow the instructions on the Ghemical Cygwin instructions page and / or ask for more specific help on the Cygwin-XFree mailing list.
Good luck.
Randall Schulz
At 18:50 2002-12-22, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
On Sun, 22 Dec 2002, Ramon Boyd wrote: > Good afternoon > > I have found a really useful software package for chemistry modeling but > I need to install and run Cygwin to use it. I don't understand how to > run Cygwin. Presently, I am running Windows XP on my system. I > understand the premise behind Cygwin as stated on the website. > However, I find the list of compilation instructions confusing. I > appreciate the level of detail the website and detail with which the > Cygwin program must run. I am interested in focusing my time on running > Ghemical. I am less interested in knowing everything about Linux based > systems. That I leave to the experts. Could you please tell me how to > install Cygwin properly? I understand that I need Gnome. Could you > also provide a hint at how I am to compile Ghemical? I would greatly > appreciate any assistance you could provide. > > http://bioinformatics.org/ghemical/download.html > > Thanks > Ramon
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